Customizing Your Setup

Overview General Settings Selection Settings View Settings Map Settings

Use Options | Settings, and select the Selection tab to change settings affecting selection.

Automatically select new objects
When each object is created, it will automatically be selected. This is useful because you can change the color, style, overlay, or size of the newly created objects to fit your map. You may find that you are always accidentally changing new objects when you don't intend to: clearing this checkbox will create new objects unselected, so you have to explicitly select them to change them (see also Freeze properties of selected objects below).

Right-click prompts to close shape
This checkbox toggles between the quick way to create closed polygons and the easy way to create them.

Freeze properties of selected objects
This option allows you to change color, style, overlay, or size toolbars without affecting any selected objects. Similar to Automatically select new objects, you can try using this option if you find yourself accidentally altering objects.

Autogroup complex objects when created
This setting causes circles, squares, rosettes, and icons to be placed in a group immediately after placement. This makes it easier to move, resize, delete, or alter the objects as a group. When this checkbox is clear, the objects aren't grouped, which means that their handles can be altered.

Crosshair on by default

Autorealm can use a green crosshair that extends all the way across the screen vertically and horizontally to help you align objects. The default setting is off, which means that the crosshair will only be on when the ScrollLock key is On. If the setting is on, then the crosshair is on by default, but can be turned off by pressing on the ScrollLock key.